Jeph's normal schedule for publishing Alice Grove is "Each Tuesday and each Thursday". However, the last publish was July 27th, a tuesday, and it's been a week since we got anything. Has Jeph abandoned Alice?

He's been away at an event - that's why there were fillers in QC as well. He doesn't bother with fillers for Alice Grove, but he has done some catching up in the past by publishing two comics later in the week.

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"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."(from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"(from: The Eccentric Family )

It's a bit early to be calling it that. Jeph's been dealing with some other stuff and probably just doesn't have time right now to keep up with both comics. Alice has always been and likely always will be the side project, while QC is his bread and butter. Comics will resume when life calms down, I'm sure.

Also, no updates for a week is enough to call for the CSI team? Some of the comics I follow update so irregularly that a monthly update would be remarkable. Some disappeared for up to a year before restarting because of the artist's life issues.

"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."(from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"(from: The Eccentric Family )

Goblins went on an over-a-year hiatus a while back as well. Sometimes comics just do peter out.. The creators lose interest, other obligations get in the way or writer's blocks turn to mountains and the comic just get fewer updates as time goes on or stop abruptly. Many times the creators will announce it though when they do decide to end a series. None of that really applies with Jeph and Alice Grove though. I do believe he is still keen on telling this story. Life just has a way of disrupting plans sometimes. It's good at that.

I'm not sure Abbott realises he didn't get elected because Australia thought he would be a good prime minister, he got in because Australia was sick of Gillard and Rudd constantly fighting for the Leadership and were wary of minority governments after the debacle of the election before. I'm believing he'll get voted out next election because I'll go mad if I believe otherwise. It does worry me that Australia nearly always gives governments a second term though.

The only thing I don't like about this video is that it was made before he decided to give an Australian Knighthood to Prince Philip of Britain and before he said his greatest achievement as Minister for Women was getting rid of the carbon tax because it was aimed at putting more money in household budgets.

Goblins went on an over-a-year hiatus a while back as well. Sometimes comics just do peter out.. The creators lose interest, other obligations get in the way or writer's blocks turn to mountains and the comic just get fewer updates as time goes on or stop abruptly.

Looking back at that, there's only one month where you could say the comic has updated twice a week. In the others, it's updated either about 1.5 times a week, or, in July through today, once a week.

I'm not berating Jeph; keeping up a weekday comic (QC) on top of AG is a real commitment. And I appreciate his commitment to keeping the quality of all his comics high.

But I do think we ought to re-think calling AG a twice-weekly comic if it only updates at half that rate. Just-sayin'...

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Alice Grove is a comic by Jeph Jacques. It updates once a week right now.

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The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange hazeI said: "Kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream or a fever